Person

Levi Goodpaster (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and banker)

b. 1820 d. 1876-07-07

Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and banker. Kentucky native. Married to Jane V. Allen Goodpaster in Nicholas County, Kentucky, on October 24, 1844. Father of Granville S. Goodpaster, Betty W. Goodpaster, Joseph Banks Goodpaster, Alexander Levi Goodpaster, Frank A. Goodpaster, Charles M. Goodpaster, Hoyt S. Goodpaster, William F. Goodpaster, and Benjamin M. Goodpaster. Merchant in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed William B. Arnold as a clerk in Bath County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Merchant in Bath County in 1860. Employed John E. Ewing as a clerk in Bath County in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons, including Sam, in Bath County in 1860. Merchant in Bath County in 1863. Banker in Bath County in 1865.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 3A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 298.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 6.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 74B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 66A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000252392, p. 66.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994028, Bath County Births, p. 67.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 21, Bath County, Kentucky, 1865, p.9.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Bath County, KY, October 1863, p. 58.

"Levi Goodpaster (1820-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial 43907881, accessed September 28, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43907881.

Citation

Goodpaster, Levi. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212206 (November 12, 2026).

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